Shinichi's radiation exposure that day alone exceeded half the government's annual exposure limit, and he had to stop working on plant jobs soon afterward.

Out of fear of harassment of his family due to the tendency of some Japanese to stigmatize those perceived as different or as troublemakers, Shinichi agreed to speak with the AP and several Japanese reporters on condition his face not be photographed.

On Tuesday, he filed a complaint with a labor standards office in Tokyo, asking authorities to confirm TEPCO's safety violations and issue improvement orders. He also is seeking penalties up to six months in jail or fines of up to 500,000 yen ($6,250) under the Industrial Safety and Health Act against the company that supervised him.

Four of the six members on a government panel drafting new nuclear safety regulations each received between ¥3 million and ¥27 million in payments, donations and grants from entities in the atomic energy industry in the last three to four years, the Nuclear Regulation Authority said.

But after the new watchdog disclosed the data Friday, its secretariat said all four members "were selected in line with regulations, and there should thus be no problem" over their appointment.

GLP's best Fuku thread: Thread: *** Fukushima *** and other nuclear-----updates and linkstwitter: #citizenperth“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would use the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I knew the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”- Albert Einstein

Nuclear reactor's plan for handling a catastrophic flood scrutinized CHICAGO -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Friday that it has asked Exelon Generation to address concerns over how the company would handle a catastrophic flood at the Dresden Nuclear Station in northern Illinois, after recent inspections indicated potential problems.

Among the concerns is how the company would refuel diesel pumps that circulate water to cool the reactor and how it would keep equipment from becoming clogged with flood debris, said NRC spokeswoman Viktoria Mitlyng. The commission sent a letter to the company Thursday, and Exelon has 30 days to respond.

She said there is no immediate safety risk, but the goal is to keep the site's two reactors safe in the event of a worst-case flood, like the one that swamped the [link to www.thonline.com] .

Reactor is shut down at Comanche Peak nuclear plantOne of the two reactors at the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant near Glen Rose was shut down early Friday after a cooling pump overheated, the operator reported.According to an event report filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Unit 1 was shut down manually at 1:42 a.m. because of "high temperature indications" in a motor bearing on one of four huge pumps that circulate cooling water around the reactor. [link to www.star-telegram.com] .

Georgia Power and the co-owners of Vogtle units 3 and 4 have filed a complaint concerning the cost dispute with Westinghouse and Shaw in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, Augusta Division.

The complaint, filed Thursday, claims that Georgia Power and the co-owners do not owe the contractors more than $900 million ($425 million is Georgia Power's share) in disputed costs resulting from design changes to certain equipment and components of the plant, and costs associated with delays in the project schedule related to the timing of approval of the design control document and issuance of the construction and operating licenses. [link to www.nucpros.com] .

4 members of gov't nuclear safety team got funding from utilitiesTOKYO — Four members of a Japanese government team that sets atomic reactor safety standards received funding from utility companies or nuclear manufacturers, raising questions about their neutrality in the wake of last year’s tsunami-triggered disaster.

The Nuclear Regulation Authority said that Nagoya University Professor Akio Yamamoto received 27.14 million yen over the past three years for research on reactors. That included 6.28 million yen from a subsidiary of Tokyo Electric Power Co, the utility that runs the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant that suffered meltdowns last year. [link to www.japantoday.com] .

GYEONGJU, South Korea, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's newest power-generating nuclear reactor will likely begin commercial operation during the first half of next year after being loaded with fuel rods this month, its builder said Sunday.

The Shin (New) Wolsong 2 reactor, located about 370 kilometers southeast of Seoul, will be ready to be put into commercial operation in May of next year following a seven-month trial run. Samsung C&T Corp. said. [link to www.nucpros.com] .

Questions arise about shuttering of Kewaunee nuclear power reactorResidents who live near the Kewaunee Power Station with its 556-megawatt nuclear reactor still are absorbing the recent news that the plant will shut down in May, taking with it 655 jobs and leaving behind — possibly for decades — scores of concrete canisters filled with spent nuclear waste.

The loss of the jobs as well as the hundreds of thousands of dollars Dominion Resources pays locally in lieu of property taxes is unsettling enough, local officials say. More disturbing, they say, are the 42 containers of nuclear waste that will remain sitting just off the shore of Lake Michigan.

"We've been lied to for 35 years," Dave Hardtke, chairman of the town of Carlton, said of the waste. "When they built that plant, the federal government said they were going to move the waste. That was 35 years ago, and look where it is sitting." [link to host.madison.com] .

Feedwater system flaw shuts down Nine Mile Point 1 nuclear plantScriba, NY – The Nine Point Unit 1 nuclear plant in Scriba shut down this morning after a component failed that controls the water level in the vessel containing its nuclear fuel, the plant’s owner said.

The automatic shutdown took place at 8:23 a.m. when instruments detected too much water in the reactor pressure vessel at Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station Unit 1, said Jill Lyon, speaking for Constellation Energy Nuclear Group, the owner. [link to www.syracuse.com] .

"We've been lied to for 35 years," Dave Hardtke, chairman of the town of Carlton, said of the waste. "When they built that plant, the federal government said they were going to move the waste. That was 35 years ago, and look where it is sitting."

Residents worried about the 521 metric tons of nuclear waste stored near their homes — especially in light of the federal government's failure to come up with a permanent storage plan.

"This all came as an awful surprise," said Paplham. "That waste may be sitting there for 200 years."

A federal plan to store the nation's spent nuclear fuel beneath Yucca Mountain in Nevada was derailed last year when local opposition to the repository, which was already under construction, prompted the shutdown of the project.

According to that report, about 3,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel is in storage at nine sites across the country where commercial reactors have been shuttered.

Of the four recipients, Akira Yamaguchi, an Osaka University professor, received a total of at least 27.14 million yen in donations and research grants from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., a manufacturer of nuclear plant equipment, and other relevant entities, it said.

Akio Yamamoto, a professor at Nagoya University, received a total of 10.1 million yen from Japan Atomic Power Co., a builder and operator of nuclear power plants, among others, it said.

Tsukuba University professor Yutaka Abe received a total of 5 million yen from parties including a laboratory of Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), while Japan Atomic Energy Agency researcher Tomoyuki Sugiyama received a total of 3 million yen from Nuclear Fuel Industries, it said.

Of the four recipients, Akira Yamaguchi, an Osaka University professor, received a total of at least 27.14 million yen in donations and research grants from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., a manufacturer of nuclear plant equipment, and other relevant entities, it said.

Akio Yamamoto, a professor at Nagoya University, received a total of 10.1 million yen from Japan Atomic Power Co., a builder and operator of nuclear power plants, among others, it said.

Tsukuba University professor Yutaka Abe received a total of 5 million yen from parties including a laboratory of Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), while Japan Atomic Energy Agency researcher Tomoyuki Sugiyama received a total of 3 million yen from Nuclear Fuel Industries, it said.

Quoting: Waterbug

This is one of Japans biggest Problems,there is nothing that is really independent!

Afaik there are only a handful of Universities who are not owned by one of the major Player(Mitsubishi for example)ergo: every Academic Person is more or less "owned" by them!

And even when you are "less Owned" or didn't careyou will never discredit your Doctorate Supervisor!(You can't be a Academic without someone who is taking care of it, it is not enough to write a First-Class Doctorate)

This is one of the reasons why i think that we needindependent Education in Japan, in Asia and in the whole World.

A University must be Independent and should never dependon "Give-aways" from the big Players!

Local awareness of the bomb was renewed when a deep sea salvage company, run by former Air Force personnel and a CIA agent, disclosed the existence of the bomb and offered to locate it for a million dollars. Local residents responded to the revelation with fear and outrage. The Air Force claims there is no need for concern and that the only danger is "localized heavy metal contamination."Whether or not the bomb could accidentally cause a thermonuclear detonation is up for debate because of conflicting documents. Officially the government claims that the weapon's capsule needed to trigger a nuclear blast was not in the bomb. However, this contradicted a 1966 letter written by Assistant to the Secretary of Defense William Jack Howard to the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Weapons. The letter, declassified in 1996, reviews the Congressional testimony that Howard gave on lost and nuclear weapons. The bomb off of Tybee is mentioned as being complete with its capsule. To this day it has still yet to be found.

Tybee Beach is the one I go to the most. I didn't know there was a bomb.

"If my emergency diesel generators go out, which happens a lot, they can sometimes use fire hoses to cool me off, too. I’m glad the NRC spokesman brought that up the other day when Hurricane Sandy happened. A lot of people were probably worried about that. This exact same thing happened to some of my friends in Japan! Fire hoses seemed to work OK for them, but I’m not sure, because no one really talks about it. I think there might have been some explosions or something. Man do they have a nice view from there though! And I heard Pacific sushi is really good!"

"There’s something called a PNO out, a preliminary notice of occurrence, and the NRC has said that the normal shutdown cooling and the fuel pool cooling were both lost at Oyster Creek and also that there was a loss of offsite power.

So what that means is the nuclear fuel pool started to heat up and Oyster Creek started to bring in some diesel fire pumps, apparently they got the situation rectified before turning the pumps. They were in a position where they were bringing in diesel fire pumps in order to keep the nuclear fuel pool cool because of all the problems they were having as a result of Sandy"

"There’s something called a PNO out, a preliminary notice of occurrence, and the NRC has said that the normal shutdown cooling and the fuel pool cooling were both lost at Oyster Creek and also that there was a loss of offsite power.

So what that means is the nuclear fuel pool started to heat up and Oyster Creek started to bring in some diesel fire pumps, apparently they got the situation rectified before turning the pumps. They were in a position where they were bringing in diesel fire pumps in order to keep the nuclear fuel pool cool because of all the problems they were having as a result of Sandy"

GLP's best Fuku thread: Thread: *** Fukushima *** and other nuclear-----updates and linkstwitter: #citizenperth“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would use the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I knew the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”- Albert Einstein

"There’s something called a PNO out, a preliminary notice of occurrence, and the NRC has said that the normal shutdown cooling and the fuel pool cooling were both lost at Oyster Creek and also that there was a loss of offsite power.

So what that means is the nuclear fuel pool started to heat up and Oyster Creek started to bring in some diesel fire pumps, apparently they got the situation rectified before turning the pumps. They were in a position where they were bringing in diesel fire pumps in order to keep the nuclear fuel pool cool because of all the problems they were having as a result of Sandy"

it kind of makes you ponder.. we hear it know ty fuku.. what else happened since the 50's that they put to bed......

Quoting: citizenperth

1. 2. Nearly every Accident, even when they lost a tiny Screw,was reported to the Nuclear Agency but the People hadand have no Interest so they didn't look for it.

In a Way it is like H2G2 when the Vogons came to destroy the World to make room for a Hyper-Space Highway,the Humans asked, flabbergasted, "Why you didn't told us"and the Vogons respond that "they done so since Thousands of Years" but on one of the Main-Planets of the Galaxy!

You can watch nearly the whole History of Nuclear Plants (of the West but afaik not the East)in the right Place!

Briefing on Fukushima children's thyroid screening exposes residents' dissatisfactionAround 70 Fukushima1 residents attended the session, during which Suzuki emphasized that it was highly unlikely that thyroid cancer rates would rise at this point, and that the results for children in Fukushima Prefecture were not out of the ordinary. He also sought understanding from residents, saying that epidemiological studies on thyroid tumors in children had never before been conducted in Japan.

Some participants expressed concern that the next round of tests for children who were given a grade of A2 (having cysts 20 millimeters or smaller), comprising the second largest group of children at around 35 percent after the 65 percent who were graded A1 (having no cysts), would not be for another two years. [link to mainichi.jp]